Re: [xwiki-users] Macro returning values

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 17:54, stefan bachert <stefanbachert(a)yahoo.de> wrote: The exact "return a value from a macro" is impossible since macro only produce rendering blocks, the only thing you can do is to store the value in some context (choices are ExecutionContext, XWikiContext, ScriptContext and VelocityContext). Only thing you can access without programming right in velocity macro is the VelocityContext, what you can do is put what you want to put in your macro in the VelocityContext and you will get it has direct binding in the following velocity macro. In java you can access the VelocityContext from the XWikiContext using context.get("vcontext"). For example, if you do vcontext.put("myvar", myvar); you can then access it in the following velocity macro using: {{velocity}} $myvar {{/velocity}} Now if the only job of your macro is to return something it probably mean that what you need is a velocity macro and not a xwiki/2.0 macro. -- Thomas Mortagne